A comparison of schizophrenic patients who have parents with psychosis and those who have not in terms of theory of mind and cognitive functions

In this study, it is aimed to compare the cognitive functions and theory of mind skills of schizophrenic patients who have parents with psychosis and those who have not. Another aim of the study is to compare the cognitive functions and theory of mind skills of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and the control group not had schizophrenia.The samples of these study constitute 80 schizophrenic patients aged between 18 to 50, and 40 healthy people who have similar according to age, gender and education level with research group. In the study, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Revised is used to evaluate intelligence quotient, Auditory Consonant Triagram Test, Line Direction Identification Test, Verbal Fluency Test, Stroop TBAG are used to evaluate cognitive functions and Theory of Mind Tests are used to evaluate theory of mind skills. Besides, personal information forms are used to obtain some personal information including socio-demographic information. According to the results, schizophrenic patients with psychotic history in family display a worse performance than schizophrenic patients without family psychotic history in terms of cognitive functions and ToM functions. Also, the control group receive higher scores on all tests. The finings of the study are discussed with the related literature results.